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...Federal Transient Relief Bureau, leaped out of bed, ran for the windows. No fire escapes. They rushed to the back of the building. A wall of flame. Some jumped in terror from upper windows. Others swung in their underwear from ice-covered telephone wires. In the smouldering ashes firemen found 14 charred bodies-seven black, seven white. Three others died later. From Washington Relief Administrator Hopkins promptly dispatched a special agent to investigate the Federal Government's worst relief disaster this year...
...base of the peaks. First to burn was the power house and out went all Hakodate's lights. Soon after the wireless station went, shutting the city off from the world. With the flicker of flames over their shoulders, crazy mobs stampeded down the dirt streets. Frantic little firemen ran toward the fire, hosed impotently. turned and ran for their lives. The wind-driven fire chased one mob toward the wharves, up to the water-edge and over into the Bay. Scores drowned. The fire caught others and incinerated them in their tracks. In the early morning the Mayor...
When the alarm rings at night; in addition to opening the doors and changing the lights, it turns on all the lights, it turns on all the lights inside the station. This is accomplished by an inside alarm system which arouses the sleeping fire-fighters. But the firemen are not awakened without sufficient reason, for a selective device refuses to allow the inside alarm to ring unless the call comes from within the district covered by the Central Fire Station...
...their beds tumble the firemen, over the smooth composition floor, and into the cedar-lined closets to get their uniforms. These closets are fitted with a device which turns on the lights inside when the doors are opened. And then as they rush to board the engines they put into use another one of the many novel features of the building. These are no ordinary poles the firemen slide down to reach the first floor. Built of shiny brass, and hung from a steel framework the slide poles have aluminum shutters which open when a man's weight...
...speak of your labor problems again, Cambridge; don't mention unemployment after the dismal swamps your ditch-ways have been this last week. The only men working appeared to be the step-fathers of local firemen, or past grand commanders of the Elks Lodge. If there were jobs for twenty, Cambridge found one--but he had to have a son-in-law in the county jail or the mayor's office...